Oy, Pass The Aspirin

By tomorrow night, a Brooklyn man will have visited 1,000 bars this year:

Raise a glass to Dan Freeman.

The 61-year-old Brooklyn barhopper is set tonight to mark the end of a quest to down at least one drink in 1,000 pubs in 2005.

Freeman’s boozy odyssey — which has led him to watering holes in three states, four countries and five boroughs — will wind down on the Bowery with a glass of champagne at bar No. 1,000, the Pioneer.

“It seems somehow appropriate to finish up on the Bowery,” said Freeman, who retired from his own consulting firm. “I’m sure that’s where many people thought I’d finish up anyway.”

His project is of course chronicled on a blog, 1000 Bars.